The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

People tend to be put off by the idea of selling sex, but if you spend a winter's night with one of them and talk with her about her family and so on, you're likely to find she's just like any other woman.

Enemies were teachers in disguise.

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.